Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Amazon EC2 Cloud
Benchmarks of an Amazon EC2 c3.2xlarge cloud instance running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS from a 26 February 2014 development snapshot. Tests by Michael Larabel of Ubuntu Linux in the Amazon EC2 Compute Cloud. Mostly focused on CPU benchmarks but also some other subsystem tests.


Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226: 

	Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2680 v2 @ 2.80GHz (8 Cores), Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 10GB

	OS: Ubuntu 14.04, Kernel: 3.13.0-12-generic (x86_64), Compiler: GCC 4.8, File-System: ext4, System Layer: Xen 4.2.amazon Hypervisor


Dbench 4.0
Client Count: 1
MB/s > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 64.73 |============================================


FFmpeg 2.1.1
H.264 HD To NTSC DV
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 15.64 |============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Sharpen
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 64 |===============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Resizing
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 117 |==============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: HWB Color Space
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 142 |==============================================


GraphicsMagick 1.3.19
Operation: Local Adaptive Thresholding
Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 66 |===============================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Blowfish
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 5017 |=============================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: Traditional DES
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 8416333 |==========================================


John The Ripper 1.8.0
Test: MD5
Real C/S > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 69808 |============================================


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP LBM
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 253.41 |===========================================


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP CUTCP
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 18.56 |============================================


Parboil 2.5
Test: OpenMP MRI-Q
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 19.86 |============================================


Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 51.24 |============================================


Timed ImageMagick Compilation 6.8.1-10
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 66.14 |============================================


Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1
Time To Compile
Seconds < Lower Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 127.47 |===========================================


VP8 libvpx Encoding 1.1.0
vpxenc
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 24.41 |============================================


x264 2014-01-09
H.264 Video Encoding
Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 20140226 . 131.09 |===========================================